David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
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David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
And David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up Carmel, and you shall go to Nabal, and you shall ask him in my name regarding peace.
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David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
Therefore Dauid sent tenne yong men, and Dauid said vnto the yong men, Go vp to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and aske him in my name how he doeth.
He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.
and David sendeth ten young men, and David saith to the young men, `Go ye up to Carmel, and ye have come in unto Nabal, and asked of him in my name of welfare,
and David sends ten young men, and David says to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and you have come to Nabal, and asked of him in my name of welfare,
So David sent ten young men. David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.
And David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up Carmel, and you shall go to Nabal, and you shall ask him in my name regarding peace.
Then David sent out ten young men; and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.
David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.
And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
So David sent ten of his young men and told them, “Go and see Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name, and say hello from me.
And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;
And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men: 'Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נָבָ֔ל Nabal H5037 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נָבָ֔ל Nabal H5037 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 30 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 16 Hebrew tokens and 25 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח דָּוִ֖ד עֲשָׂרָ֣ה נְעָרִ֑ים וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד לַנְּעָרִ֗ים עֲל֤וּ כַרְמֶ֨לָה֙ וּבָאתֶ֣ם אֶל נָבָ֔ל וּשְׁאֶלְתֶּם ל֥וֹ בִשְׁמִ֖י לְשָׁלֽוֹם
David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί δαυίδ ἀποστέλλω δέκα παιδάριον καί εἶπον ὁ παιδάριον ἀναβαίνω εἰς κάρμηλος καί ἀποἔρχομαι πρός ναβαλ καί ἐρωτάω αὐτός ἐπί ὁ ὄνομα ἐγώ εἰς εἰρήνη
And David sent ten young men, and he said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in my name how he is.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וּשְׁלַח דָוִד עַשְׂרָא עוּלֵימִין וַאֲמַר דָוִד לְעוּלֵימַיָא סַקוּ לְכַרְמְלָא וּתְהָכוּן לְוַת נָבָל וְתִשְׁאֲלוּן לֵיהּ בִּשְׁמִי לִשְׁלָם:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 16 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nâbâl (“Nabal”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 25:5 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.